(2 Oct 2024)
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Washington – 2 October 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Jen Easterly, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency:
"Our heart goes out to those who are suffering the impacts and effects of Hurricane Helene."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jen Easterly, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency:
"We are working with our federal partners, in particular FEMA, as well as private sector and state and local partners."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jen Easterly, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency:
"We have been in touch with state and local election leadership."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jen Easterly, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency:
"They are in the process, election officials deciding, trying to determine what the impact of this storm is on election infrastructure. And I think that still remains to be seen. I know that they are working to put procedures and processes in place to ensure that there is no significant impact on voters being able to cast their ballot or on election officials being able to ensure that those ballots are counted as cast."
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STORYLINE:
Jen Easterly, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told AP that election officials in the areas affected by Hurricane Helene are in the process of determining what the impact is on election infrastructure.
Easterly said "I know that they are working to put procedures and processes in place to ensure that there is no significant impact on voters being able to cast their ballot or on election officials being able to ensure that those ballots are counted as cast" in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Elections.
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